Cullen_Steel Cobras MC by Evie Monroe

Author:Evie Monroe [Monroe, Evie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: MC romance, motorcycle club, Bikers, Single Mom
Publisher: Book Boyfriends Publishing LLC
Published: 2018-10-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Cullen

Pain seared up my neck. On the ground, I looked over my shoulder to see if we were in the clear. The warehouse was demolished. Black smoke poured into the air and flames licked at the walls and hunks of twisted metal. Ash and debris floated down on us, along with the steady, driving rain. In the distance, my guys were running through the curtains of smoke, some shouting, others with their mouths open.

But I couldn’t hear them. Couldn’t hear the roar of the fire. All I could hear was the echo of my heart in my head. I pressed a hand to my ear. It came back wet and sticky with my blood.

I turned to Grace, who was huddled in a ball on the ground, still clutching Ella. Ella’s face was contorted in a sob I couldn’t hear. Grace’s chest heaved.

I reached out and grabbed her face in my hands, steadying her. “You okay?” I asked, looking her over. She had a bleeding scratch on her cheek, mixing with raindrops. I yanked off my kutte and then my shirt to stop the bleeding, but it wasn’t very clean. It was covered in blood, but I brought it to her cheek.

We were soaked to the skin now. Her body trembled. She grabbed Ella, doing the same inspection I’d done to Grace. Her mouth moved in a frantic twist as she examined the little girl, but I couldn’t understand her. I turned to Ella, who was still sobbing, red-faced, and saw what Grace saw: Ella’s face was bloody.

I looked closer, for the source. “It’s not her.” I said, sounding like I was talking in slow motion. “It’s your blood. Mine.”

She grabbed Ella to her chest and heaved a sigh of relief.

I pounded on the side of my head, willing my hearing back, and it worked some, because I heard her voice, but far away. “You. You’re bleeding, Cullen.” She reached for me and I followed her line of sight, feeling my neck. Warm, wet blood was pouring down my back. I lifted my hand and found the source of the bleeding, a cut on the back of my head.

“I’m okay,” I said.

Behind me, I heard the shouts of people, and in the distance, sirens. The rain pounded harder all around us.

I motioned to a bus shelter with a bench at the side of the pier. I lifted Grace to her feet and dragged her and Ella over there. I wiped the gravel from her knees and shins as she perched at the edge of the bench. “Stay here, okay? I’ll be back.”

She hugged Ella and nodded absently, the two of them wet and shivering. Thunder boomed overhead, and she shook.

I took her face in my hand and made her look at me. “Hey. It’s going to be okay. You good?”

She blinked with recognition and nodded again, this time, more with it.

As fast as the rain had come on, now it was starting to let up. I ran down to where Hart was standing, talking with some of the other guys.

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